Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.